![]() ![]() The force generated should see the ball bounce a further ten feet upon hitting the ground. And good memory aids anecdotes, as do examples.Ĭonsider classical physics: mass multiplied by the acceleration of a ball falling down to earth. In that sense I am religious.” I have quoted these lines by Einstein so many times that now I have them memorised. “To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly…this is religiousness. To that I say, ‘Did you know Einstein was religious?’ I turn to the man who introduced himself as a data scientist earlier, and ask him if he’s religious. And I scan their faces for one with a perpetual curled lip – an expression resulting from extended exposure to cynicism. It is at this point of the story that a smallish crowd usually gathers around me with their drinks. That was until unrighteous fame pockmarked the bend of his arm with heroin hickeys and left him wasted on the curb in 1957. The legends of jazz, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie would all snap fingers to Coltrane’s tune. He was pretty good at it too until he started to think that his talent privileged his behaviour.Ĭoltrane was a saxophonist in Miles Davis’s band. ![]() John Coltrane blew air into a pipe for a living. It is one of those questions you get asked so often at parties that you eventually get better at answering them. Coltrane?’’ I ask the musician who asked me, ‘ why football writing ?’ ‘’Have you heard the story about the Church of St. Citing the examples, anecdotes & words of Coltrane, Van Gogh, Chesterton, Einstein, Mondrian, Cruyff and Bob Dylan to tell you why football writing matters. ![]()
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